View source for 2013/04/07/Wearing a Badge and a Video Camera

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[[title/short::Wearing a Badge and a Video Camera]]
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* '''when''': [[when posted::2013/04/07]]
* '''author''': [[author::Randall Stross]]
* '''source''': [[site::New York Times]]
* '''topics''': [[topic::police sousveillance]] [[topic::US/CA/Rialto]] [[topic::Barak Ariel]] [[topic:Taser International]]
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* '''link''': [[URL::http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/business/wearable-video-cameras-for-police-officers.html?_r=0]]
* '''title''': [[title::Wearing a Badge, and a Video Camera]]
* '''summary''': <call func=smw.let.echo key=Summary>Even with only half of the 54 uniformed patrol officers wearing cameras at any given time, the department over all had an 88 percent decline in the number of complaints filed against officers, compared with the 12 months before the study, to 3 from 24.</call>
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<p>Rialto�s police officers also used force nearly 60 percent less often � in 25 instances, compared with 61. When force was used, it was twice as likely to have been applied by the officers who weren�t wearing cameras during that shift, the study found. And, lest skeptics think that the officers with cameras are selective about which encounters they record, Mr. Farrar noted that those officers who apply force while wearing a camera have always captured the incident on video.</p>
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